Chelsea bank on £31m man Shevchenko to rule Europe

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JOSÉ MOURINHO may have been turned down by some of the best strikers last summer, but the Chelsea manager finally got his man last night when he completed the signing of Andriy Shevchenko, arguably the world’s most dangerous attacker for the past five years.

The Ukraine forward’s arrival for a fee in the region of €45 million (about £31 million) breaks the British transfer record set by Manchester United when they signed Rio Ferdinand for £29.1 million four years ago. It is a straight cash deal, meaning that William Gallas, the defender admired by AC Milan, will not be moving